Hi,

I got this wierd error when I tried to log into to Fedora 5.

My error message was:

"Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."

The details in ~/.xsession-errors file says

"/etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: line 14: dircolors: command not found.
/etc/bashrc: line 8: id: command not found.
Failed to execute message bus daemon: No such file or directory EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon".

Does anyone have any suggestions what I could do about this error?

Thanks

check your PATH (echo $PATH).
Also try to execute the commands 'id' and 'dircolors' from your shell.
Guess some problem in installation !

I ran the commands dircolors and id in a shell and they worked fine.

When typing id it returned:
uid=500 gid = 500 groups=500 context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh

dircolors gave me all the color setups for ls.

Sorry, I have no clue about what I am looking for in the PATH variable

my existing PATH is set to

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

What should my path be set to?

I was running Fedora 5 fine, until it got really slow and froze and I had to restart it from the power button. That is when it gave me this error. Perhas I corrupted something when I didn't log off properly???

Also when I logged in in GNOME-safe mode after that, it prompted me to run the following command 'eval 'dbus_launch -auto-syntax'. Nothing seemed to happen when I did.

I checked how much space I had left, I had 45 Gbytes.

I also tried to find the ~/.xession-error file. Figured that I could delete it and restart. Where is that file located, tried searching for it...

Thanks

Sorry, I am unable to guess the problem.

Are you trying to login through xwindows ?

First try to log-in through console (ctrl + shift + f2).
And execute the scripts that are showing error.
$/etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
$ . /etc/bashrc

see if you can get the errors.

I logged in to console and executed the following line:

/etc/profile.d/colorls.sh

I got the following error:

/etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: line 14: dircolors: command not found
/etc/profile.d/colorls.sh: line 15: return : can only 'return' from a function or sourced script.

The ./etc/bashrc, always gave me "permission denied" even though I was root??


Thanks for trying to help me out, I am so greatful.

I have been working on a project for months on my Linux Box and suddenly I can't even log into my machine, very frustrating.

ok, second command was . /etc/bashrc (or $source /etc/bashrc), not ./etc/bashrc .
Thats why you got permission denied

I feel somehow gnome got screwed (assuming you are using gnome).

Two thinks you can try.
1. Add another user, and login as that user, and check it is working fine.

2. For your troublesome user, move the .ICEauthority and .gnome related files somewhere, like
#mv .ICEauthority /tmp/.ICEauthority
#mv .gnome* /tmp/
Reboot and try to login.
Share your experience

I have now come to another problem =) Sigh.

I am running GNU Grub version 0.75 and have a dual partition set up.
When I try and select my Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp) installation, it takes me to a console, I can't even choose to go into Failsafe GNOME anymore. Since I have no idea what I am doing =), when I get to the console, I don't know how start XWindows.

I do however have a choice of pressing e to edit commands before booting, a to modify kernel arguments before booting or c for command-line in the menu options.

I did some changes when I was in GNOME failsafe last time. I changed the run level to 3 instead of 5 in etc/inittrd, read somewhere that that could have been the problem. I also added a line to execute dbus-launch in /etc/profile so I could automatically execute dbus-launch, read somewhere that that could have been the problem.

How do I start XWindows and what commands actually work when running from a console? Mv,ls don't work along with several others...

I ran the commands from the console and the . /etc/bashrc executes fine, no errors.


I keep digging my self into a hole I think =)

>> In console mode, are you able to login or not ?

>> Changing to level 3 in /etc/inittab turned it to console mode.


>> You can run xwindows whith 'startx'(/usr/X11R6/bin/startx) command.
But all the commands should work from console, if you havn't messed up the system

>> Had you tried removing .gnome* stuffs ?

>> Thats way you can learn better

No worries, I got my XWindows back and am trying to sort my old problems in Failsafe GNOME.


Adding a user didn't change anything, I still got the errors as shown below:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp.
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "viking"
D-BUS per-session daemon address is: unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-sn1nVpYQWW,guid=5aea7344f1f1b1eaf7dfc2a532bc200
/etc/profile.d/colorls/sh: line14: dircolors: command not found
/etc/bashrc: line 8: id: command not found
/etc/bashrc: line 8: id: comamnd not found
Failed to execute message bus daemon: No such file or directory
EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon

Unfortunately I get these errors when I log in as root and as another user. Moving the ICEauthority files did not change anything.

Thanks

I just solved my problem.....


It was to do with me setting my PATH variable in /etc/profile and not bothering to restore it to some of the most popular places for executables

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:

Thanks pronoy you are a champion.

nice that you solved the problem yourself